May, 2003 : Michail Romesis Received
the Dimitris Chorafas Foundation Award
Michail
Romesis received the 2003 Dimitris Chorafas Foundation Award which is given
each year to three graduate students in the UCLA School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences for their outstanding research and academic performance.
The award consists of a certificate and a cash prize of $4,000. Michail is
the fifth person in Prof. Cong's group who has received this award since
its establishment in 1995. The four previous winners from this group
were Cheng-Kok Koh (1996), Lei He (1997), Songjie Xu (1999) and David Pan (2000).
April, 2003:
Best poster award at UCLA research review
The poster from the SOC group (Yiping Fan,
Guoling Han, Xun Yang, Zhiru Zhang) with the title
"Architecture and Synthesis for Multi-Cycle Communication"
won the best individual poster award at the annual UCLA
Computer Science Research Review. This year's research review featured
more than 70 posters from all the research groups of the Computer Science
Department.
April, 2003:
EE Times article about UCLA VLSI CAD LAB research
The recently published paper
"Optimality, Scalability and Stability Study of Partitioning
and Placement Algorithms"
by Jason Cong, Michail Romesis and Min Xie (ISPD 2003) was the subject of an
article that appeared
on the EE times magazine
in its online edition for the 10th of April.
February, 2003:
UCLA VLSI CAD LAB on the cover of EE Times
The recently published paper "Optimality and Scalability Study of Existing
Placement Algorithms"
by Chin-Chih Chang, Jason Cong, and Min Xie (ASPDAC 2003) was the subject of an
article that appeared in the cover
of the EE times magazine
in its online edition for the 5th of February.
May, 2002:
Tianming Kong received 2001-02 Outstanding Ph.D. Award
Congratulations to Tim Kong
for receiving the Outstanding Ph.D.
Award from the UCLA Computer Science
Department for the academic year 2001-2002.
Sept, 2001: New Visiting Researcher -- Mr. Hidetoshi
Matsuoka from Fujitsu Laboratories
Hidetoshi Matsuoka joined the research group of Prof.
Jason Cong as visiting researcher from Fujitsu Laboratories. He will be
with UCLA for a year. Matsuoka received his M.S. degree in electronic engineering
in 1989. His research interest is multilayer area routing.
Sept, 2001: New graduate student
-- Min Xie
Min Xie joined the research group of Prof. Jason
Cong in September
2001. Min received his M.S. degree from Tsinghua
University, China.
Currently he works on multilayer gridless area routing.
Sept, 2001: New graduate student
-- Zhiru Zhang
Zhiru Zhang joined the research group of
Prof. Jason Cong in September
2001. Zhiru received his B.S. degree from Peking
University, China.
His current research emphasis is on system-on-a-chip(SoC).
Sept, 2001: New graduate student
-- Yiping Fan
Yiping Fan joined the research group of Prof.
Jason Cong in September
2001. Yiping received his M.S. degree from Tsinghua
University, China.
Currently he works on SOC.
Sept, 2001: Prof. Jason Cong received
the SRC Technical Excellence Award Recipient for Year 2000.
In a letter dated on August 24, 2001 from Dr. Dinesh
Mehta, Vice President, Business Operations & Strategic initiatives
to Prof. Walter Karplus, Dean of UCLA School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, it says
" It is a great pleasure to inform you that Professor
Jason Cong has been selected to be the SRC Technical Excellence recipient
for the year 2000. Dr. Cong's work in the area of Interconnect Estimation,
Planning and Synthesis for Sub-Micron Designs has significantly enhanced
the productivity of the U.S. semiconductor industry. Dr. Cong will receive
$5,000 in recognition of his achievements.
The SRC Technical Excellence Award is given annually
to researchers who, over a period of years, have demonstrated creative,
consistent contributions to the field of semiconductor research, who are
ground breakers and leaders in their fields, and who are regarded as model
collaborators with their colleagues in the SRC member community.
The SRC operates globally to provide a competitive
advantage to its member companies as the world's premier research management
consortium delivering relevantly educated technical talent and early research
results. The SRC plans and manages a program of basic and applied university
research on behalf of its participating members.
We are very proud of the contributions made by Jason
and his students and wish them continued success."
June, 2001: New SRC Contract for
Prof. Jason Cong's Group
Jason Cong's research group was awarded
another contract from Semiconductor Research
Corporation (SRC) on "Synthesis and
Optimization under Physical Hierarchy".
The specific tasks in this project
include physical hierarchy generation,
behavioral-level and logic-level
synthesis under physical hierarchy and applications
to synthesis with timing closure,
micro-architecture evaluation and incremental system designs.
June, 2001:
Second alumni reunion meeting of Professor Jason Cong at DAC
During this year's Design Automation Conference
in Las Vegas Jason Cong's
group and alumni held a reunion meeting. Seven people
from UCLA attended
the meeting and six former students/visitors. This
is intended to be
an annual event occurring at every DAC. Alumni interested
in attending
the event should contact us at michail@cs.ucla.edu
with his/her latest contact
information.
June, 2001:
Songjie Xu and David Pan received 2000-01 Outstanding Ph.D. Award
Congratulations to Songjie Xu and
David Pan for receiving the Outstanding Ph.D.
Award from the UCLA Computer Science
Department for the academic year 2000-2001.
The awards were formally announced
on June 16, 2001 at the Commencement of the
UCLA School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences.
June, 2001:
Dr. Wangning Long completed his post-doctoral research at UCLA
Dr. Wangning Long has completed his post-doctoral
research at UCLA with Prof. Jason
Cong. His research at UCLA was on SPFD and its application
to rewiring. In
June 2001, he presented his work on "Theory
and Algorithm for Global SPFD-Based
Rewiring" at the 2001 International Workshop of
Logic Synthesis . He is
now with the Aplus Design Technologies, Inc. as
a Senior Engineer.
May, 2001:
New post-doctoral researcher - Xun Yang
Dr. Xun Yang joined the research group of Prof. Jason
Cong as a post-doctoral
researcher. Xun received his Ph.D. degree
from the Beijing Institute of
Technology in computer science. He also worked at
Tsinghua University as
a post-doctoral researcher from March 1999 to April
2001. His current interests
include hardware/software co-design and co-verification.
May, 2001:
New visiting scholar -- Zhong Chen
Dr. Zhong Chen joined the research group of Prof.
Jason Cong as a visiting scholar.
Dr. Chen is a Professor at the department of computer
science and technology
at Beijing University, China since 1995. He received
his Ph.D. from the Beijing
University in computer science. His research interests
include security information
based on system-on-a-chip, software-hardware co-design
and embedded system
technology.
March, 2001:
New NSF Award on System-On-A-Chip
The proposal to NSF on Giga-Scale System-On-A-Chip
Designhas been funded.
This award will support the establishment of an
International Research
Center on System-On-A-Chip involving 7 universities
in US (UCLA and UCSB),
Taiwan (National Tsinghua Univ. and National Chiao
Tung Univ.), and China (Peking
Univ., Tsinghua Univ., and Zhejiang Univ). There
will also be supports from
NSC (National Science Council) in Taiwan and CNSF
(Chinese National Science Fou
ndation) in China, to be announced later this year.
The research activities of the
center include investigation and development of
efficient SOC synthesis tools,
methodologies, SOC verification, test and diagnostic
technologies, and an SOC
design driver that motivates and validates various
synthesis, verification
and test techniques developed during the course
of this research project.
February, 2001:
New Ph.D. -- Jie Fang
Jie Fang received his Ph.D. in February 2001 under
Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis
was on "Multi-Layer Gridless Detailed Routing".
Jie is now a Design Engineer
with Broadcom.
February, 2001:
Dr. Taku Uchino has completed his term as a visiting researcher
at UCLA
Dr. Taku Uchino has completed
his term as a visiting researcher at UCLA and returned
back to Toshiba. His research in Prof.
Jason Congss group was on power
modeling for interconnect planning
in deep submicron designs. A major part of his
research result will appear in
a paper entitiled "An Interconnect Energy
Model Considering Coupling Effects"
at the 2001 Design Automation Conference.
December, 2000 : Prof. Jason Cong
Was Elected as an IEEE Fellow
Congratulations to Prof.
Jason Cong, who was elected to an Fellow of IEEE (The Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers), a leading technical professional
association of more than 350,000 individual members in 150 countries, in
technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology
and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics,
among others. In a letter issued by Dr. Bruce A. Eisenstein, the President
of IEEE, it states that "Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure,
the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one
of the Institute's most prestigious honors, election to IEEE Fellow." Dr.
Jason Cong was elected to an IEEE Fellow at the meeting of the IEEE Board
of Directors on December 3, 2000 with the following citation: "For contributions
to the computer-aided design of integrated circuits, especially in physical
design automation, interconnect optimization, and synthesis of field-programmable
gate-arrays."
November, 2000 : New Ph.D. -- David
(Zhigang) Pan
Congratulations to Mr.
David (Zhigang) Pan who received his Ph.D. degree in November 2000
under the supervision of Prof.
Jason Cong. His thesis is on "Interconnect synthesis and planning
for high-performance IC designs". He is now with the IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center at Yorktown Heights, New York, where he is a Research Staff Member.
September, 2000 : New Ph.D. --
Songjie Xu
Congratulations to Ms. Songjie
Xu who received her Ph.D. degree in September 2000 under the supervision
of Prof. Jason Cong.
Her thesis is on "Synthesis for High-Density and High-Performance SRAM-Based
FPGAs". She is now with the Aplus Design Technologies, Inc. in Los Angeles,
California, where she is a founding member of the R&D team and Senior
Engineer.
September, 2000:
New graduate student -- Ashok Jagannathan
Ashok Jagannathan joined the research group of Prof.
Jason Cong in September 2000.
Ashok received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science
from the University of Illinois, Chicago. The title
of his thesis was "Applications
of Shortest Path Algorithm to VLSI Layout Problems".
His current research area
is on interconnect optimization.
September, 2000:
New graduate student -- Yan Zhang
Yan Zhang joined the research
group of Prof. Jason Cong in September 2000. Yan
received her M.S. degree from Tsinghua
University, China. Currently she works on
multilayer general area gridless routing.
September, 2000
New graduate student -- Yizhou Lin
Yizhou Lin joined the
research group of Prof. Jason Cong in September 2000. Yizhou
received a B.S. degree from Tsinghua
University, China. His current research
emphasis is on logic synthesis
and optimization.
August, 2000: New graduate
student -- Deming Chen
Deming Chen joined the research group of Prof. Jason
Cong in August 2000. Deming
received his BS degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
His current research
area in on synthesis for programmable logics.
VLSI CAD in the 21st Century
"VLSI CAD in the 21st Century" is a celebraton of
Prof. Cong and VLSI CAD Lab's 10th anniversary at UCLA. It also serves
as the first reunion for all current and former members of Prof. Cong's
research group.
The highlight of this workshop includes the keynote
speech by Prof. C.L. Liu (Prof. Cong's Ph.D. advisor, who is now President
of National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan) and the presentations from
Prof. Cong's former Ph.D. students, who are now faculty members of major
research universities, researcher of leading industrial research lab, and
senior engineers of CAD companies. In addition, we will have a lot of fun
events. Please browse the following program and if you have any suggestion,
please let us know.
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Preliminary Program for "VLSI CAD in the 21st
Century" Workshop
- in Celebration of Prof. Cong and VLSI CAD Lab's
10th Anniversary at UCLA
June 10, Saturday
Marina del Rey Hotel 13534 Bali Way,
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Tel: (310)301-1000, (800)882-4000,
http://www.marinadelreyhotel.com/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
Friday, June 9 6:00pm: Cocktail and social event at
Westwood Brewing Factory
1097 Glendon Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Saturday, June 10
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-9:10 Welcome
9:10-9:45 Keynote speech by Prof. C.L. Liu, President
of National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan. (title TBD)
9:45-10:45 Invited talk by 2-3 former Ph.D. students
of Prof. Cong in FPGA/logic synthesis (titles TBD)
10:45-11:00 break 11-12:00 Invited talks by 3 former
Ph.D students of Prof. Cong in physical design (titles TBD)
12:30-2:30 Lunch + lunch speeches by
+ brief address by Prof. Dick Muntz (CSD
Chairman) and present a plate to Prof. Cong (contributed by current and
former students)
+ speech by Prof. Cong
2:30-5:30 Roundtable discussion or just fun program???
6:30- Dinner (place TBD)
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Organizational Committee:
Chin-Chih Chang, Michael Chen, Sung Lim, Janice
Martin, David Pan, Xin Yuan --------------------------------------
June, 2000 : New Ph.D. -- Sung-Kyu
Lim
Congratulations to Sung-Kyu
Lim who received his Ph.D. degree in June 2000 under the supervision
of Prof. Jason Cong. His thesis
is on "Performance Driven Circuit Partitioning". Sung came to UCLA VLSI
CAD Laboratory in Fall 1995.
May, 2000 : Chang Wu and Lei He
received 1999-2000 Outstanding Ph.D. Award
Lei He and Chang Wu received the 1999-2000 UCLA
Computer
Science Department Outstanding Ph.D. Award for their outstanding achievements
during their Ph.D. study at UCLA. Dr. He is now a faculty member at Univ.
of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Wu is now with Aplus Design Technologies,
Inc. Dr. Yeanyow Hwang, a graduate from this group, was the winner of this
award last year (1998-99).
May, 2000 : David Pan Received
Dimitris Chorafs Foundation Award
May. 29, 2000. David
Pan received the 2000 Dimitris Chorafas Foundation Award which is given
each year to two graduate students in the UCLA School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences for their outstanding research and academic performance.
The award consists of a certificate and a cash prize of $4,000. David is
the fourth person in Prof. Cong's group who has received this award since
its establishment in 1995. The three previous winners from this group
were Cheng-Kok Koh (1996), Lei He (1997) and Songjie Xu (1999).
October, 1999 : Congraturations
to Songjie Xu
Oct. 22, 1999. Songjie
Xu received the 1999 Dimitris Chorafas Foundation Award for her novel
research work on technology mapping for field-programmable gate-arrays
with embedded memory blocks. The Dimitris Chorafas Foundation
Award is given each year to two graduate students in the UCLA School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences for their outstanding research and academic
performance. The award consists of a certificate and a cash prize of $2,000.
Songjie is the third person in Prof. Cong's group who have received this
award since its establishment in 1995. The two previous recipients
were Cheng-Kok Koh (1996) and Lei He (1997).
September, 1999 : New Ph.D. --
Lei He
Lei He received
his Ph.D. degree in Sept. 1999 under the supervision of Prof.
Jason Cong. Lei came to UCLA VLSI CAD Laboratory in Fall 1994.
His thesis is on "Modeling and Optimization of VLSI Interconnects". He
joined the Faculty of ECE Department
of University of Wisconsin at Madison.
September, 1999 : New Graduate
Student -- Michael (Gang) Chen
Michael enrolled
in the Ph.D. program at UCLA Computer Science Department this fall and
joined Prof. Jason Cong's group as
a graduate student researcher. Michael received his BS degree in the Computer
Science Department of Tsinghua University
in the summer of 1999.
September, 1999 : New Visiting
Researcher -- Dr. Taku Uchino from Toshiba
Dr. Taku Uchino
joined Prof. Jason Cong's group
at UCLA as visiting researcher from Toshiba
Corporation. He will be with UCLA for a year and a half. Dr.
Uchino received his Ph.D. degree in physics in 1993. His current
research interest is power estimation in DSM technology.
August, 1999 : New Postdoc -- Dr.
Wangning Long
Dr. Wangning
Long joined Prof. Jason Cong's
group as a post-doctoral researcher. He received his Ph.D. from Tsinghua
University in Beijing, China, in July 1997. His Ph.D. thesis
was on "Research on digital system testing and BDD variable ordering".
He worked as a post-doctoral researcher from Sept 1997 to July 1999. His
current research interest is in designing algorithms for logic synthesis
and physical design automation.
August, 1999 : New Ph.D. -- Chang
Wu
Chang Wu
received his Ph.D. degree in Aug. 1999 under the supervision of Prof.
Jason Cong. Chang came to UCLA VLSI CAD Laboratory in Winter
1995, first as a visiting scholar, later became a Ph.D. students. His thesis
is on "Performance-Driven FPGA Synthesis for Sequential Circuits". He is
now with Aplus Design Technologies
as a Senior Engineer.
August, 1999 : NSF Workshop on
System-on-a-Chip in Taiwan
An International workshop on "Challenges and
Opportunities In Giga-Scale Integration for System-On-A-Chip", under
the joint sponsorship of US National Science
Foundation and Taiwan National Research
Council, was held in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan during Aug. 25 & 26, 1999.
The workshop co-organizers are Professor
Jason Cong from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Professor
Youn-Long Lin and Prof. C. L. Liu from Tsinghua University, Taiwan. The
workshop were attended by a group of researchers, practitioners, and visionaries
from universities, major silicon foundries, EDA companies, large system
design houses and fabless semiconductor companies (include FPGA companies),
and small IP providers. Dr. Chi-Foon Chan, President of Synopsys,
delivered the keynote speech at the workshop. For workshop summary
and report, please check with the workshop
webpage.
August, 1999 : 1990-2000 California
MICRO Award on Interconnect Planning and Optimization
California
MICRO Program awarded the research project at UCLA
VLSI CAD Laboratory on "Interconnect Planning and Optimization"
for 1999-2000. This project is co-sponsored by Fujitsu
Laboratories of America.
This project will be directed by Prof.
Jason Cong.
August, 1999 : 1990-2000 California
MICRO Award on FPGA Research
Aug. 1999: California
MICRO Program continued its support to the research project at UCLA
VLSI CAD Laboratory on "SRAM-Based FPGA Synthesis and Architecture
Evaluation" for 1999-2000. This project is co-sponsored by all
major PLD/FPGA vendors, including Actel,
Altera,
Lucent Technologies, Quickturn,
Vantis, and Xilinx.
This project will be directed by Prof.
Jason Cong.
July, 1999: New SRC Award
July, 1999: UCLA
VLSI CAD Laboratory received another award from Semiconductor
Research Corporation for the project on "Nonlinear Programming for
Large-Scale Circuit Placement with Complex Constraints". It is
a three-year project starting July 1999. The principal investigator of
the project is Prof. Jason Cong,
and the co-investigators are Prof.
Tony Chan (UCLA Math Department) and Prof.
Joe Shinnerl (UCLA Computer Science Department). Tianming
Kong is the graduate student researcher working on the project.
June, 1999 : Student Award for
Yeanyow Hwang
Yeanyow Hwang received 1999 UCLA Computer
Science Department Outstanding Ph.D. Award.
June, 1999 : New Contract for Prof.
Jason Cong's Group
Jason Cong's research group was awarded another
contract from Semiconductor Research Corporation
(SRC) on "Nonlinear Programming for Large-Scale Circuit Placement with
Complex Constraints".
April 26th, 1999 : David Z. Pan
Awarded 1999 IBM Research Fellowship
David Z. Pan was awarded the prestigious IBM
Research Fellowship for the 1999/2000 academic year. Only about 25
Ph.D. students in US and Canada are awarded, in all areas of interest to
IBM, including electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics,
and related disciplines. With over 350 exceptional candidates this year,
it is indeed a special honor to obtain an IBM Research Award. Congratulations
to David!
April 3rd, 1999 : Congraturations
to Yeanyow Hwang
Dr. Hwang has successfully completed his Ph.D. study
at UCLA in March 1999. Currently Yeanyow joined Synopsys Design Compiler
team.
March 24th, 1999 : Software Donation
from Microsoft
Microsoft Corp.
donated
its software to VLSI CAD Lab at UCLA for the PC platforms. The donation
package include: one Windows NT 4.0 Server, two Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
with Office 97 Pro and Visual Studio 6.0. The total value of the
package is $4,943.00. The donation is to encourage Universities doing research
and developement on Windows NT plateform.
June, 1998 : Ph.D. Graduates go
to Academic
Cheng-kok Koh and Patrick Madden both got their
Ph.D. degree in June 1998. Now Dr. Koh is a professor in Purdue
University, IN and Dr. Madden is a professor in State
University of New York, Binghamton, NY.
November, 1998 : New Machines from
Intel Corp.
Intel Corp. denated
four high performance PCs to VLSI CAD lab at UCLA. The donations include:
-
Two 450Mhz workstations with Pentium II Xeon processor
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Two 450Mhz computing servers with dual Pentium II processors
November, 1998 : Student Awards
David Z. Pan
won "Best Paper in Session" award in TECHON'98
November, 1998 : Post-Doctoral
goes to industry
Dongmin Xu goes to Cadence
Design System Inc. in November, 1998.
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